By Tom Breihan on January 25, 2011 at 11:55 a.m. EST

TV on the Radio/Maximum Balloon production whiz Dave Sitek has worked his remix magic on Swedish spell-weaver Lykke Li's Playlisted new single "I Follow Rivers", giving the track a gooey, horn-assisted bounce. The Sitek remix will appear alongside the original track and another remix from Subliminal Kid and Van Rivers on the "I Follow Rivers" single, which is coming February 14 from Lykke Li's own LL Recordings/Atlantic. Meanwhile, you can stream or download the Sitek remix over at RCRDLBL. Wounded Rhymes, Lykke Li's sophomore album, arrives March 1 from LL Recordings.

By Tom Breihan on January 4, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. EST

TV on the Radio guitarist and production mastermind Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction, kinda. According to a press release, Sitek is now a member of the pioneering funk-metal band's "creative team". He's playing bass and writing for the band's forthcoming album, tentatively due this summer from Capitol. The album is still in progress; the band is working on it in Los Angeles with Muse/Interpol producer Rich Costey.

By Ryan Dombal on October 26, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. EDT

Photo by Nick Walker

Welcome to 5-10-15-20, where we talk to artists about the music they loved at five-year interval points in their lives. Maybe we'll get a detailed roadmap of how their tastes and passions helped make them who they are. Maybe we'll just learn that they really liked hearing the "Scooby-Doo" theme song over and over when they were kids. Either way, it'll be fun.

By Tom Breihan on September 17, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. EDT

In Maximum Balloon's new clip for "Groove Me", Dave Sitek's universe turns into a cheesy primary-colored 1980s video, with guest sing/rapper Theophilus London turning up in all sorts of unexpected places. Watch the clip below, via Stereogum.

By Tom Breihan on July 12, 2010 at 1:35 p.m. EDT

TV on the Radio guitarist and production guru Dave Sitek has at least one thing in common with my one-year-old daughter: They both really, really like balloons. Up above, you can see Sitek himself on the cover of the self-titled album from his new solo project, Maximum Balloon, carrying a big red one and looking like he might fly away. And in the video for first single "Tiger", a gigantic dragon monster chases people through a field of balloons. Then, at the end, all those people break in half, and they all turn out to have a bunch of balloons inside. The helium budget for this clip must've been off the charts. Check it out below.

By Ryan Dombal on July 7, 2010 at 2:45 p.m. EDT

Photo by Nick Walker

TV on the Radio guitarist-producer Dave Sitek wrangled people like Karen O, David Byrne, TVOTR's Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone, Holly Miranda, and Theophilus London to guest on a new album he put together under the name Maximum Balloon. The record is out August 24 via DGC/Interscope but feel free to listen to fizzy new track "If You Return"-- featuring vocals from Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano-- over at SPIN. (Annoying piracy-preventing drops included.) They've also got a track-by-track write-up for your reading pleasure.

Related: A new Esquire video featuring irrationally sexy model Daisy Lowe dancing to "Tiger" is available here. (She's the girl sitting upside down on the "Tiger" sleeve, too.)

The Maximum Balloon album is due August 24 via DGC/Interscope and will feature several yet-to-be-named guest vocalists including Karen O, David Byrne (Byrne is not confirmed at press time), TVOTR's Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone, Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano, Holly Miranda, and Theophilus London.

As we wait on the official release of Raaaaaaaandy and TV on the Radio producer-guitarist Dave Sitek's hip-hop mixtape, the duo have a new video on Funny or Die that claims Canadian moppet Bieber shot Raaaaaaaandy in the knee and stole a Raaaaaaaandy track called "Baby Baby" and turned it into his smash hit "Baby". Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner makes a guitar-swaying cameo in the skit.

Check out the first track from the mixtape, "AAAAAAAANGRY", here. Download Raaaaaaaandy's "Baby Baby" and watch the Bieber vs. Raaaaaaaandy saga below.

And-- because this is the only chance I'll ever get to embed a Justin Bieber video on Pitchfork-- the original "Baby" video is after the jump, too. The kid really let himself go: